By so much the more shall I to-morrow be at the height of heart-heaviness, by how much I shall think my brother happy in having what he wishes for.
No; as a wall'd town is more worthier than a village, so is the forehead of a married man more honourable than the bare brow of a bachelor; and by how much defence is better than no skill, by so much is horn more precious than to want.
But Ananias answered: Lord, I have heard by many of this man, how much evil he hath done to thy saints in Jerusalem.
But now he hath obtained a better ministry, by how much also he is a mediator of a better testament which is established on better promises.
No, dear, but speaking of Father reminded me how much I miss him, how much I owe him, and how faithfully I should watch and work to keep his little daughters safe and good for him.
I have none, but Clara has; I am sure she will give me some; how much do you want?
Athelny came back now and then with stories ofhow much Mrs. Heath or Mrs. Jones had picked, and he conjured his family to beat her: he was always wanting to make records, and sometimes in his enthusiasm picked steadily for an hour.
How much wiser he would have been if, in accordance with his military discipline, he had organized industry and taught the people to procure by their own labor the things which he tried in vain to deprive them of.
How much is a diamond worth which costs only the labor of picking it up?
Friends," he begins in a very benevolent tone, "how much trouble it costs you to do a little work and live uncomfortably!
Well, by how much do the problems of which philosophy treats surpass in the gravity of their results those discussed by geometry!
Pray, Boswell, how much may be got in a year by an Advocate at the Scotch bar?
Indeed, we must have often observed how inferiour, how much like a child a man appears, who speaks a broken tongue.
In the case which you mention, it is probable the clergyman spends all he gets, and the physician does not know how much he is to get.
He might have been a little scared at the picture of how much more, in this place, he should know himself "in" hadn't his friend been on the spot to measure the amount to his appetite.
Strether followed it; then with an abruptness of his own: "How much do you like Chad?
Strether wondered to find Miss Gostrey already involved, feeling that he missed a link; but feeling also, with small delay, how much he should like to talk with her of Madame de Vionnet on this basis of evidence.
How much, poor Mr. Strether, you seem to have to see about!
How much or how little Sloane remembered Amory did not care to know; he apparently had none of the nervous tension that was gripping Amory and forcing his mind back and forth like a shrieking saw.
He thought how much easier patriotism had been to a homogeneous race, how much easier it would have been to fight as the Colonies fought, or as the Confederacy fought.
I repeat, I have only heard a less alarming account than you have heard; how much it means, and how little, I cannot say.
To all this weather Giles must be more or less exposed; how much, she did not know.
How much of the exaggerated information on the then new divorce laws which Beaucock imparted to his listener was the result of ignorance, and how much of dupery, was never ascertained.
There is a limit as to how muchof this insignificant twaddle we should allow.
To give you an idea of how much I trust her, there are two people in the department that I would feel right about leaving alone in my office and she was one of them.
Henry let out an exasperated breath, turned toward the panel and said, "I think we'd better break for lunch and discuss how much of this irrelevant material we are prepared to listen to.
The truly wise man, we are told, can perceive things before they have come to pass; how much more, then, those that are already manifest!
How much more so if the furthest portions of the army are anything under a hundred LI apart, and even the nearest are separated by several LI!
Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations to defeat: how much more no calculation at all!
How much more so will man, who carries in his breast the faculties of love and hatred, joy and anger!
As the potter knows the vessel he fashions, how much it is to hold, and uses clay accordingly, so the Lord makes the body in conformity with the soul, and to agree with the capacity of the body He plans the soul.
How much severer is the task of freeing sixty myriads from the dominion of Pharaoh!
And the men that were with David, said to him: Behold we are in fear here in Judea, how much more if we go to Ceila against the bands of the Philistines?
How much more if the people had eaten of the prey of their enemies, which they found?
And his servant answered him: How much is this, that I should set it before a hundred men?
How much more is man abominable, and unprofitable, who drinketh iniquity like water?
And Pharao said: The people of the land are numerous; you see that the multitude is increased; how much more if you give them rest from their works?
I By how much higher we see poor mortal go On Fortune's wheel, which runs a restless round, We so much sooner see his head below His heels; and he is prostrate on the ground.
I have figured up how much of this sum is due to me, and I find it to be one hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty seven cents.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "how much" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
